Restless sleep

[Abi1987]

Hi so my little boy is 20 months and is waking up about 10.30pm give or take 30 mins, different every day and won't settle back until 1am ish. Does this mean I need to look at his nap? Is it too long or too short he sleeps for 1 and half hours at 11am and goes to bed at 6.30.
Please can someone advise

Well, every child is different. None of us can really say what will work for another child, but it would suggest he is treating going down to sleep at 6.30 as another nap. Would putting him to bed later work ?

Well this is my issue, he wakes up at 7, is exhausted by 9 but try keep him up as long as possible, 11 is the latest he can go for a nap even though it used to be 12.30. He is exhausted by 4 so I push him to 6.30 then he wakes again at 10.30/11 like fully awake full of beans and won't go down till 1am/2am. Then up at 7 again. He's too old to be having 2 naps isn't he?

We had this issue with our DD and we decided to let her have the morning nap as I felt this was just an extension of her regular sleep, she would then have a nap around 12:30 after her lunch for anywhere from 40mins to 2 hours and then we would put her to bed about 19:00 and she would occasionally wake but soon go back off.

I found (and find - although she’s 3 now and hasn’t napped for a while) that if she went to bed over tired she had a terrible nights sleep and was an early riser. By incorporating that morning nap she naturally started stretching out her main sleep so it meant that she would be sleeping in for longer until she only had her afternoon nap.

11 seems a bit early for that to be the only nap of the day. I don’t think it matters how old they are, some will naturally drop their naps around 12 months others much later. I would suggest putting him down for that morning nap (he may only have a short nap anyway, our DDs morning nap was always short) and putting him down for his afternoon nap a bit later then putting him down for the night later still.